On 12 December 2015, ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) Secretary-General H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping met with Director Lan Suhong and Senior Counselor Qin Yusen of the China Culture Centre in Bangkok.
Secretary-General Yang Xiuping said that the China Culture Centre in Bangkok had been actively pushing forward cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and Thailand by organizing a series of rich activities since its establishment. Their efforts had been widely welcomed by the local people in Thailand. The year of 2014 was the ASEAN-China Cultural Exchange Year and relevant celebrations had been successfully concluded. ACC would like to strengthen cooperation and communication with the China Culture Centre in Bangkok and make full use of this platform to conduct various activities, with a view to promoting people-to-people exchanges between China and Thailand as well as ASEAN and China to a new level.
Ms. Lan Suhong welcomed Secretary-General Yang to visit Thailand and briefed on the major work of the China Culture Centre in Bangkok. The Centre was the first Chinese Cultural Centre in ASEAN Member States, aiming to introduce and promote Chinese culture as well as cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and Thailand, to enhance friendship between the two countries and peoples. Since its establishment, the Centre had kept close cooperation and interaction with Thailand and had positive influence on cultural exchanges between China and Thailand as well as ASEAN and China. It was expected that the China Culture Centre in Bangkok and ACC would join hands to make new contribution to China-Thailand relations and ASEAN-China relations by co-hosting relevant activities.